Starship Troopers isn’t a smart movie pretending to be a dumb movie, it’s a moderately intelligent movie with pretensions of being a smart movie pretending to be a dumb movie.
With Starship Troopers, it all hinges on what you feel when Dizzy dies. Personally, I was legit angry at the bugs when that happened, and then had the realization of “oh… so that’s how fascist propaganda works.” I think it had to be on the nose a bit for the message to come across.
The movie ends with a guy in an SS uniform saying they’ve made the enemy afraid and everyone cheers, and still a lot of people didn’t get it. So it may not have been dumbed down enough for a lot of people to get the message.
Starship Troopers isn’t a smart movie pretending to be a dumb movie, it’s a moderately intelligent movie with pretensions of being a smart movie pretending to be a dumb movie.
Robocop, on the other hand, is a masterpiece.
Agree 100% on Robocop.
With Starship Troopers, it all hinges on what you feel when Dizzy dies. Personally, I was legit angry at the bugs when that happened, and then had the realization of “oh… so that’s how fascist propaganda works.” I think it had to be on the nose a bit for the message to come across.
The movie ends with a guy in an SS uniform saying they’ve made the enemy afraid and everyone cheers, and still a lot of people didn’t get it. So it may not have been dumbed down enough for a lot of people to get the message.